Scholarships Examinations
The NZQA website introduces Scholarship as providing 'recognition and monetary reward to top students in their last year of schooling. Scholarship exams enable candidates to be assessed against challenging standards, and are demanding for the most able candidates in each subject. Scholarship candidates are expected to demonstrate high-level critical thinking, abstraction and generalisation, and to integrate, synthesise and apply knowledge, skills, understanding and ideas to complex situations."
More NZQA details about Scholarship
Physics Scholarship details and resources
(make sure you check out the top scholar's paper)
More NZQA details about Scholarship
Physics Scholarship details and resources
(make sure you check out the top scholar's paper)
Preparation for ScholarshipBecause in the Scholarship exam you will be expected to "demonstrate high-level critical thinking, abstraction and generalisation, and to integrate, synthesise and apply knowledge, skills, understanding and ideas to complex situations," It will be really important for you to immerse yourself in as much Physics as you can this year. Reading as much as you can about Physics (texts, articles, magazines etc) . Subscribing to a few YouTube channels, visiting useful websites (see below). Use Facebook to share your discoveries with others.
NZYPT ResourcesThe NZYPT website holds a number of interesting resources that are used in annual student competitions, it is not always up to date but does have some useful information.
The 2014 problems as a pdf Some useful resources and guidelines are available on the IYPT website Have a look at at the very bottom of the Shrewsbury IYPT page at the link to the reference kit. It has some great references even though it covers many more problems than are on our list. |
Useful Resources |